This is the thread for the Fox News "Daily Show for conservatives" thing

And then what does that audience get? A few laughs, a few telling jabs, a few comments that hit the mark so well that you'll want to repeat them to your friends. For instance, in the "newscast" segment that dominates the shows, there's a segment about that little rascal, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying (and I paraphrase from memory here): "And in other news, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke about the recent Holocaust Denial Conference in Teheran -- and denied that it ever happened. And if it did take place, he said that the number of participants had been greatly exaggerated."

HAR HAR HAR!

Oh good, because you know there ain't shit on TV Sunday night at that time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IrzwxbL7iU&mode=related&search=

But I do think there was a laugh-tracked O'Reilly clip before. Maybe even this one.

I don't understand. What do you mean? What are "comments"?

that joke could be on the daily show easy.

The minute or two I saw during commercials was beneath contempt.

-- teasing your poultry (fluxion2...), February 19th, 2007. (later)

Idi Amin: "i got you a political prisoner but i eated it."

It's the same reason Air America has never turned a profit. Revenge humor is rarely humorous.

Really? their sales staff couldn't do jack and their stupid mgmt didn't replace them?

oh jesus f'in christ, yes, of COURSE, there's obvious publicized evidence that HRC is damn near SLATHERING over the prospect of gaining power, JUST to stack the courts, agencies, and various departments with her praetorian legions of lesbo-cronies. Give me a fucking break.

Of course, this give an amusing image is a southern foghorn leghorn-style senator address a senate panel about "the growing threat of lesbo-cronies in our midst, gentlemen!" like something out of Bloom County.

also, the lesbo joke is mentioned up thread. Where's that image of radical animal rights ecoterrorists that somebody found, with the angry lobster and the unshaven hippie chick w/ a gasoline can?

http://cache.wonkette.com/assets/resources/2006/12/animalrights.jpg

lobster with angry eyebrows! Suicidal bomber owl!

close, but i think the tattoo is more of a kitty/wolf thing

Surnow and his friend Ann Coulter—the conservative pundit, and author of the pro-McCarthy book “Treason”—talked about creating a conservative response to George Clooney’s recent film “Good Night, and Good Luck.” Surnow said, “I thought it would really provoke people to do a movie that depicted Joe McCarthy as an American hero or, maybe, someone with a good cause who maybe went too far.”

I feel like the way this idea is framed is very revealing, and kind of ties in with what that review linked above says about the show actively trying to wring humor from things rather than looking for naturally-occurring humor. Notice that he doesn't say that he, specifically, sees Joe McCarthy as a tragic figure deserving of sympathy, or would like to reform the public perception of him; he simply thinks it would "provoke people" (see also: Barack Obama race jokes, reheated Ann Coulter foot-in-mouthisms, etc). I realize that this basically just confirms what everyone else has already said, but it's still kind of amazing (to me) to see just how straightforward his thought process is.

Not only that, but as a direct response to Clooney's out-there liberalism. HE'S MAD AS HELL AND HE'S NOT GOING TO USE REASON ANYMORE.

But, as said earlier on this thread and elsewhere, modern conservatism is pretty much boiled down to "we'll get those dirty hippies" and little else.